YouTuber and former child star Sophia Grace Brownlee has given birth to her first child, having confirmed the arrival on Instagram with a poignant post.
Brownlee, 19, rose to fame as a youngster when she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show at the age of eight, performing Nicki Minaj's Super Bass with her cousin, Rosie McClelland:
The pair found viral fame when their family posted a video of the energetic rendition of the hit online, impressing the presenter so much that she not only invited them onto the show, but also ended up bringing them back a number of times as a firm favourite act.
The cousins even went on to get their own segment called ‘Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie’, which saw them interview celebrities themselves.
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Fast forward more than a decade and Brownlee is now a parent – I know, feel old yet?
Sharing the happy news with fans, she posted a photo of her newborn holding her finger in a sweet black and white snap.
She also shared the baby’s date of birth in the caption, which said: “26.02.23.”
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DeGeneres was one of many well-wishers to comment on the post, writing: “Welcome to the world, Nicki Minaj the 3rd!”
Brownlee’s cousin McClelland added: “I love him so much already.”
At the end of January, Brownlee - who is from Essex, England - posted photos from her baby shower, posting in a cream jumpsuit next to a matching balloon arch.
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She has also been sharing updates on her pregnancy with fans on YouTube, having announced she was expecting in a video.
At the 21-week stage, she said: “I was very shocked when I first found out, I have got used to it now and I am super, super happy about it and I can't wait to share this journey with you guys.”
She said she had also been to her 20-week scan and that ‘everything was fine’.
The star said she’d struggled with sickness during the pregnancy, explaining: "I have about four months left, at the start of the pregnancy I felt very, very sick for a long time.
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"It still comes back sometimes now and it literally ruins your whole day, I don't know why they call it morning sickness because it lasted all day for me, all day long. Thankfully it is sort of going away a little bit."
Brownlee also previously said she decided to take a SneakPeek gender test – a type of blood test that can show the sex of the baby by looking for male chromosomes in the mum's blood – at eight weeks, but didn’t plan on sharing whether she’d be having a little boy or girl ahead of the birth.
Jess Hardiman